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Автор: Gates, Robert
Название: Duty
ISBN: 0753555557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753555552
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Robert Gates was US Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011 serving under both George Bush and Barack Obama. Before that he was Director of the CIA. This is his candid and revealing account of US military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, where Gates oversaw the controversial `surge` of US troops in both countries.

Автор: Gates, Robert
Название: Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War HB
ISBN: 0753555530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753555538
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 'As I look back, there is a parallel theme to my years at war: love. By that I mean the love - there is no other word for it - I came to feel for the troops, and the overwhelming sense of personal responsibility I developed for them. So much so that it would shape some of my most significant decisions and positions.' When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he'd long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty. Robert Gates was US Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011 serving under both George Bush and Barack Obama. Before that he was Director of the CIA. This is his candid and revealing account of US military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, where Gates oversaw the controversial 'surge' of US troops in both countries. As well as this, he also provides commentary on the situations in Syria, Iran, Israel and North Korea and details behind the scenes meetings with Bush, Cheney, Rice, Obama and other major political figures. Mr. Gates is the only Secretary of Defense to serve under both a Republican and a Democratic president, and in Duty he provides an unsparing, full accounting of his tenure.

Автор: Stone Robert
Название: Damascus Gate
ISBN: 0547599382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780547599380
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: A stunning novel by a great American writer. "Washington Post"
Jerusalem: home to seekers, heretics, hustlers, and madmen of many faiths. In this most fractious city, a plot unfolds to bomb the sacred Temple Mount.
Christopher Lucas, an expatriate American journalist, stumbles upon the plot while investigating religious fanatics. Entangled in the intrigue are a nightclub singer, an unstable Jewish guru, a strung-out Kabbalist seeking the messiah, and a soldier of fortune routinely found at the world s violent clashes. A confrontation in Gaza, a chase through riot-filled streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze as Lucas races against time, he uncovers the duplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalem s sacred struggle.
An explosive bestseller, "Damascus Gate" lays bare the dangers at the fringes of faith.
A transcendent thriller. "Time"
Brims over with plots, subplots, and an impressive array of incisively drawn characters . . . The range of Stone s] knowledge is spectacular. "The New Yorker"
Damascus Gate asks enormous questions about cosmic truth and its effect on those who think they own it with intensity, intellectual rigor and abiding morality. "San Francisco Chronicle"
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Автор: Gates, William H.
Название: Wealth And Our Commonwealth
ISBN: 0807047198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807047194
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Описание: Open Agile Architecture, a standard of The Open Group, offers an approach to architect at scale with agility. It provides guidance and best practices for Enterprise Architects seeking to transition into Agile and Digital contexts. Empowering an Enterprise to Succeed with its Digital-Agile TransformationAgile teams drive the enterprise`s Digital Transformation by inventing new business models, delivering superior customer experiences, developing digital products, and architecting highly-automated operating systems.The Open Agile Architecture Standard was designed keeping the needs of all business stakeholders in mind:¢ Business Leaders - to drive the enterprise`s Digital and Agile change journey¢ Enterprise Architects - to extend their scope of influence in an Agile at scale world¢ Product Managers - to help transform customer experience, innovate products, and generate growth¢ Product Owners - to accelerate their transformation from managing feature backlogs to steering value delivery¢ Operations Managers - to enable them to leverage Lean and automation to generate sustainable competitive advantages¢ Software Engineers - to leverage the power of digital technologies to co-innovate with the businessThe more Agile the enterprise, the faster the learning cycles, and faster learning cycles translate to shorter time-to-market resulting in more agility. By adopting an Open Agile Architecture approach, your organization can capitalize on this accelerated learning cycle, meaning your Agile and Digital capabilities continuously and simultaneously co-create one another.

Автор: Gates Robert Michael
Название: Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
ISBN: 0307959473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307959478
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he'd left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happy in his role as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty. Now, in this unsparing memoir, meticulously fair in its assessments, he takes us behind the scenes of his nearly five years as a secretary at war: the battles with Congress, the two presidents he served, the military itself, and the vast Pentagon bureaucracy; his efforts to help Bush turn the tide in Iraq; his role as a guiding, and often dissenting, voice for Obama; the ardent devotion to and love for American soldiers--his "heroes"--he developed on the job.

In relating his personal journey as secretary, Gates draws us into the innermost sanctums of government and military power during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, illuminating iconic figures, vital negotiations, and critical situations in revealing, intimate detail. Offering unvarnished appraisals of Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Presidents Bush and Obama among other key players, Gates exposes the full spectrum of behind-closed-doors politicking within both the Bush and Obama administrations.

He discusses the great controversies of his tenure--surges in both Iraq and Afghanistan, how to deal with Iran and Syria, "Don't Ask Don't Tell," Guant namo Bay, WikiLeaks--as they played out behind the television cameras. He brings to life the Situation Room during the Bin Laden raid. And, searingly, he shows how congressional debate and action or inaction on everything from equipment budgeting to troop withdrawals was often motivated, to his increasing despair and anger, more by party politics and media impact than by members' desires to protect our soldiers and ensure their success.

However embroiled he became in the trials of Washington, Gates makes clear that his heart was always in the most important theater of his tenure as secretary: the front lines. We journey with him to both war zones as he meets with active-duty troops and their commanders, awed by their courage, and also witness him greet coffin after flag-draped coffin returned to U.S. soil, heartbreakingly aware that he signed every deployment order. In frank and poignant vignettes, Gates conveys the human cost of war, and his admiration for those brave enough to undertake it when necessary.
Duty tells a powerful and deeply personal story that allows us an unprecedented look at two administrations and the wars that have defined them.